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Convenience is the key do you really want to go to the grocery store and pay $1.69 the minibar at $3.00 or split the difference and try the vending machine for $2.25? A similar con…

What if it's passive? Wifi from the routers of homes emit the RF energy and all the police do is use a detector I could see that as legal since it's energy being emitted just as if…

Or #shirtgate when idiot "journalist" (The Atlantic's Rose Eveleth) went ballistic over Philae ESA Project Scientist Matt Taylor's shirt. Matt had a shirt on with women similar to …

If you pay in cash it gets rounded up or down e.g. $1.03 becomes $1.05 if it's $1.02 it's $1.00 but if you pay via debit card or credit card it doesn't change. Here is the governme…

My screen brightness has broken it's so bright why are my eyes so watery, obviously it's the screen.

It should have a gas alarm on it to at least add 10 minutes after a flush.

Yup, Cosmos was on tonight, subject: lead. It's nice to see it got some brains fired-up. PBS also had a great series the Poisoner's Handbook about different poisonous elements and …

Possibly this http://fellrnr.com/wiki/GPS_Accuracy It seems Garmin is more accurate. I saw it on reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/236lqy/gps_...

I wonder if I could just use a large bore syringe and some cotton wadding?

I'm a bit farther east.

It's like that where I am in eastern Canada people go out smoke weed and drink every weekend if not every night! Most have menial jobs just enough to get by with government assista…

Wouldn't that be something with an umami taste?

It also easier to spit wood when it's cold out -10C to -20C it seems to crack better. I used to hate fall as a kid when wood splitting season began. Pneumatic splitters are great b…

With PM Harper and his goons you know that the nicer the Conservatives try to make it sound the worse it is, just like the Fair Elections Act bill.

It's hard to say it would be a battle between immediate versus long-term. And by that of course I mean I would have to share it with poor around the word I think most people would.…

I've only been to one F1 race in person that was 1988 in Montreal and I couldn't believe the noise, vicious! My teeth vibrated, even my bones I couldn't believe I could feel my fre…

The super rare Hat.

I find it amazing that the books and manuscripts are still around hundreds if not a thousand years later meanwhile the dye medium of my data CDs from the mid 90s is probably rotten…

It does, the light ring changes to indicate you're seen by the Nest Protect and when you wave to silence a smoke alarm the Nest Protect says "Smoke alarm hushed." http://support.ne…

Porsche (pour-sha damn it!) executives were pretty smart back in 2008, but I guess VW owns them now. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/business/worldbusiness/31n...

Taiwan may get "Putin-ed", step 1 cause citizen outrage, step 2 citizens revolt against their corrupt government step 3 China moves in to help stabilize the country without a gover…

I think it's amazing how any vehicle maker can idiot-proof any vehicle, the general population seems to be suicidal and then blames the manufacturer for not protecting them during …

About ten years ago I went to an IT job fair while I was in first year CS I had gone late in life so at 32 I felt I was finally doing the right thing. I thought maybe I could get s…